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Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3380
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of items found in a Bible, called a Cottage Bible. The genealogy in the Bible is from a family that lived in Cass County, mostly in Pokagon Township. Also included are programs for the Pokagon Township Sunday School Association for 1889 and 1898. It appears that the Bible may have come from Cass County. Two of the names listed in the genealogy, Elijah and Betsy Houck are found in the 1860 Census living in Pokagon Township. The other names were not found yet. The...
Dates:
1890
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: RH-A-4396
Abstract
This collection is composed of one high school diploma from Galesburg High School in Galesburg, Michigan, that was awarded to Edward Lamkin in 1937.
Dates:
June 10, 1937
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1757
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 6 diaries, 2 appointment books, and papers written between 1928 and 1956 by Estella Hughes (1887-1971) of Kalamazoo, Michigan, psychiatric social worker and Director of Social Services at Kalamazoo State Hospital.Estella Hughes's diary entries occasionally mention her work at the Kalamazoo State Hospital. Many of the diary entries detail her life with her husband, as well as her life after his passing in 1940. Estella kept up on current events...
Dates:
1928-1956
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3996
Abstract
The collection contains photographs of Esther Lane (1921-2010) and class composites from when she taught early elementary in Parchment, Michigan (1945-1980).
Dates:
1937-1980
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3708
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of a certificate of achievement for Esther Meachum issued in 1916. The certificate was presented to Esther when she was likely still in Elementary school. The award was for having no tardies or absences in the Spring of 1916. She attended school in District 1 in the township of Arlington in Van Buren Country.
Dates:
1916
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1584
Scope and Contents
Letters exchanged between Esther Morris Rasmussen (1914-1991), her immediate family, and friends, 1930-1980. The collection includes correspondence from Leo. Brown, Jr. to Esther, 1934-1939 and letters from Esther’s five brothers, Richard, Edward, Walter G., Robert S. and Harold during their service in the armed forces during World War II. Included are letters exchanged in early 1945 in regards to Robert’s untimely death in an airplane crash, as well as Harold’s abrupt marriage later in the...
Dates:
1930-1980
Collection
Identifier: 02-exws_facsleaves
Abstract
Loose facsimile leaves distributed as samples from vendors. Reproductions from various medieval and Early Modern texts.
Dates:
1996-2013; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1995
File
Identifier: RH-A-3549
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the diary of a lumberman from 1868, and contains information regarding his daily routine, as well as his business dealings with local farmers and business associates. The diary owner appears to have either owned a small farm himself, or served as a temporary laborer on other farms in the area (he also seems to have owned small amounts of livestock). The diary also suggests that he had an intimate business relationship with a local farmer named Jacob Ulrich, and his...
Dates:
1868
Item — Box: 1 of 1
Identifier: RH-A-4283
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of one black leather-bound ledger from Farrell Products Company in Dowagiac, MI. The ledger contains the company by-laws, records of meeting minutes, and records of stockholders and stockholder meetings. The entries in the ledger range from 1923 to 1925.
Dates:
approximately 1923-1925
Collection
Identifier: RH-A-1572
Scope and Contents
Edward K. Warren was born in Vermont in 1847 and moved to Three Oaks in Berrien County, Michigan in 1858 with his parents. In 1883, Edward established the Warren Featherbone Company after recognizing a market for improved corset materials. After securing a patent, Edward began producing "featherbone," an alternative to pricey and frail whalebone. Featherbone was made from pointer feathers discarded by regional feather duster factories. Warren opened his first featherbone factory in Three...
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1835-1934
